You'll Always Know How Rare Your PlayStation 4 Trophies Are

Have you ever wondered whether that PlayStation trophy you just earned is a gimme or something worth crowing about? Now you don't have to scroll through your friends' trophies to find out.

The PlayStation 4 will offer a dynamic trophy-rarity system. On your trophy screen, you'll see a classification that identifies a trophy as common, uncommon, rare, and ultra rare, according to a Sony representative. We saw this yesterday morning during a user experience briefing here in New York City.

The rarity will shift over time depending on how many players have earned the trophy, and it's conceivable that any given one could go in either direction. All of your trophies are displayed in the same place now, too. You'll see everything you've earned on PS3, Vita, and PS4 on one screen.

We've seen trophies pop up in a few games, and they seem to be more closely timed to the trigger activity. The slight lag on the other two platforms seems to have been eliminated.

We'll be able to share more once the 1.5 firmware update goes live. That should be no later than tomorrow.

I welcome this idea, as I'll no longer need to rely on the trophy websites to determine the rarity of the trophies I collect. There's simply too big a difference between these sites, mainly around the DLC trophies.

This is a cool feature. I like trophies and achievements. They're a great addition to gaming, even if I don't go after them in most games. I've only gotten 100% completion of trophies/achievements on two or three games out of the hundreds I've played, lol!

I still could care less about trophys and realize I am one of the few. It took till June this year to
finally be able to turn annoying trophy notifications (PS4). That should have been a feature from day 1.
I am a game completionist usually. I covered every square inch of the map in Fallout 3, researched what it takes to get all the stars in Braid, and read up on most all of the secrets in the earlier Final Fantasy games. Completing these types of things in games are my trophys.

Pretty sure it was already obvious which ones are easy to get ( and thusly not rare) and which took a LOT of patience, luck and determination. I know that the " I'm Batman" trophy is an easy one VS " Don't get Cocky, kid" from Dead Space or "Aerial Predator" from Darksiders.